[olug] linux

[T. J. Brumfield]

To clarify, Ubuntu LTS and CentOS allow you to do updates to patches without
doing a major upgrade. If you're using something else like Fedora or
openSUSE, they wil continue to create packages and security updates two
releases behind. For instance, if you install openSUSE 11.3, they will
continue to push updates through the openSUSE 11.4 and 11.5 life-cycle, but
won't during the 11.6 life-cycle.

Each of those release cycles for openSUSE is 8 months. Some people aren't
comfortable doing a major update in 8 months (or 6 months for distros like
Ubuntu and Fedora). So that is where a LTS release comes into play.

However, if you don't do thoes major updates, you may lose a direct upgrade
path and have to wipe the box when you do want to do a major update in the
future.

Would you rather run a LTS for 5years, wipe and then do a fresh install, or
keep a rolling update every 6-8 months?

The advantage of Linux is that you have that choice.

-- T. J.

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Jon Larsen <relayer at levania.org> wrote:

>
> If you never plan to do any updates for security and such, stick with the
> ubuntu/opensuse/fedora recommendations.  They all do a update
> support cycle of generally a year past the current release.  You can
> always do major dist/os upgrades, but it depends how much down time do you
> want.
>
> If you plan to keep your server up to date with security updates
> longer than a year, choose CentOS or Ubuntu LTS.  CentOS puts out
> patches for 5~7 years past the initial release, and Ubuntu LTS is 5
> years for the Server version, well past the desired lifetime of a server
> assuming you replace a server every 4 years to keep up with current
> hardware.
>
> Current CentOS is 5.5 (look for 6 coming soon)
> Current Ubuntu LTS is 10.04 (next version should be 12.04)
>
> Jon L.
>
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, adam davis wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 20:09:12 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: adam davis <radamdavis at yahoo.com>
> > Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> > To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> > Subject: [olug] linux
> >
> > Helloooooooooooooo oluggers
> > I am wondering what version of Linux would the easiest to use in a
> server environment?
> > For a little FYI. I am trying to decide what would be a better for me. I
> would like to have a home server that i could mainly use for storing
> and synchronize files on. I have a chose between windows server 2008 and
> a Linux distro.
> >
> > </Adam>
> >
> >
> >
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